MMO Games – Page 2 – Esport Voice

As Ultima Online approaches its 28th birthday, former creative lead reveals what it takes for an MMO to last for decades, and why they sometimes fail: “Content does not last forever”

Raph Koster knows a thing about making an enduring MMO, as he helped create one of ...

Cult text-based zombie MMO Urban Dead is shutting down after “a full 19 years, 8 months and 11 days” because of new UK legislation

The UK Online Safety Act passed into law in 2023, and it properly comes into effect ...

Final Fantasy 14’s Yoshi-P quietly removed from Square Enix’s board after years of wanting out: “It’s much more fun to just make games”

Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida, also known fondly as Yoshi-P, seems to have been removed ...

I was worried this MMO’s first new skill in over 12 years would change things too much, but Sailing in Old School RuneScape feels just like home

There is no such thing as horses in Old School RuneScape. Given you can teleport just ...

Ultima Online lead says “Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley and all these other kind of cozy games” are filling a gap in modern MMO design

A former lead developer on Ultima Online and ex-director on Star Wars Galaxies says cozy games ...

This Steam Next Fest gem is all the joy of clearing dungeons in World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 without the MMO grind or subscription fees

Much like the game’s whole vibe, Fellowship’s pitch is pleasingly simple. The co-op RPG offers all ...

Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies’ “spiritual sequel” smashed its $200k Kickstarter target in under an hour, and the sci-fi fantasy MMORPG is now on track to double its goal

Stars Reach – the upcoming sci-fi fantasy MMORPG from Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies veteran ...

I know next to nothing about survival MMO Dune: Awakening, but I just spent 40 minutes in its Steam Next Fest demo character creator, so I guess I have to play it now

Let’s just clear the air: I don’t know what Dune is. I’ve never read the books, ...

BioWare co-founder dreamt of taking over EA “from the inside” if Star Wars: The Old Republic was, “like, $2 billion a year successful”

Had BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk’s industry “swan song,” Star War: The Old Republic, been more successful, ...

Making an MMO is like “founding a city” says Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies veteran, but his ambitious new sci-fi fantasy game sounds more like a “parallel world”

If anyone knows how to make a good MMO, it’s Raph Koster. From serving as the ...

Former Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies dev says MMOs have “been in a rut for a long time” after World of Warcraft’s popularity narrowed down “a much more diverse genre”

MMO pioneer Raph Koster, best known as Ultima Online’s lead designer and Star Wars Galaxies creative ...

4 years later, the League of Legends MMO remains a major project for Riot Games’ co-founder who says it’s “exactly the type of company” that should be making MMOs

The League of Legends MMO has been cooking for over four years at this point, but ...

Former Ultima Online lead wants his new MMO to satisfy the “huge, huge appetite” for “a more immersive parallel world” like the ones in Sword Art Online and Animal Crossing

Former Ultima Online lead designer and Star Wars Galaxies creative director Raph Koster says games like ...

For the first time in 28 years, this ancient MMO is adding a new class

Tibia, one of the oldest and longest running MMORPGs around, is getting its first new class ...

“Valve does a very good job of surfacing games that players like”: As his new RPG prepares for Steam early access, ex-WoW vet says making good games is the only real hack

Former World of Warcraft veteran designer Chris Kaleiki is prepping his new extraction RPG for early ...

Ex-World of Warcraft designer says the stagnating “meta” in today’s RPGs “really sucks,” and Marvel Rivals is a good example of how to solve it

Former Blizzard Entertainment developer Chris Kaleiki, who primarily worked as a class designer on evergreen mammoth ...